English
evite
Evite comes from Middle French eviter ‘to avoid’, and goes back to Latin vītō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvītō‘to avoid, evade’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvītō‘to avoid’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600eviter‘to avoid’
- Englishearliest quotation 1678evite
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvītō‘to avoid, evade’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvītō‘to avoid’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600eviter‘to avoid’
- Englishearliest quotation 1678evite
Earliest quotation: 1678, Robert Barclay: “The way which our adversaries take to evite this…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- ‘to chase, pursue’
previous, obvious, violent, virtual, violation, voyage, convey, vengeance, virtue, envoy, trivial, violate, avenge, trivia, vis, virtuous, deviation, venison, wer, vindication, ochre, virtuoso, deviant, viaduct, vim, virile, inviolable, violator, virility, trivium, virago, obviate, 53 more
through Latin vītō ‘to avoid, evade’
Today it means
verb To avoid.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vītō / evite